The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1887-08-05
PETITION.
To the Honorable, the Board Of County Commits
sioners Of Allen County, Kansas:

To the Honorable, the Board of County Commits
stoners Of Allen County, Kansas:
WE, THE UNDERSIGNED. Your petition
ers, being resident Taxpayers and legal voters
Allen, State Of Kansas. respectfully petition
Your Honorable Body to submit TO the quail
fed electors Of said township for their accept
dered by Your Honorable body. under and in
pursuance of the laws of the State OF Kansas,
and an act entitled IAN act to enable counties
townships and cities TO aid In the construction
30 of the Laws of 1874, )" which took effect Feb
ruary 20, 1876, and amendments thereto, the
FOLLOWING to.w sae
Shall the township OF Cottage Grove, County
of Allen, in the State Of Kansas, subscribe for
two hundred shares. Of one hundred dollars
Kansas q Western Railroad Company, .
corporation organized and existing under the
laws of the State OF Kansas, and, In payment
twenty bonds of said township Of Cottage
Grove, County of Allen. of the denomination OF
One Thousand Dollars each. said bonds to be
tSs Stat State Of Kansas In New York City thirty
years after the date thereof, bearing interest at
the rate of six per cent per annum, payable
annually, for which interest coupons shall be
attached, payable at the fiscal agency afore-
said.
This subscription Of stock and issue of bonds
to be upon the etey
mined in the Affirmative, by canvass Of the votes
cast at said election, the Board Of County Com
OF said 81 Or Cse
County Of Allen, shall order the County Clerk
to make, and the County Clerk shall make said
IN the n said ta
hundred shares Of capital stock Of said railroad
company; and when the railroad Of said rail-
road company shall be built o. standard a gaags,
otherwise, from the main line Of the Southern
Kansas Railway, at or near where the same
crosses the Neosho River in the County Of Ne
OshO, In the State Of Kansas, to the city OF Fort
scott in Bourbon county. Kansas, the said
The Chicago, Kansas q Western Railroad
Company shall receive Twenty Thousand
Dollars OF said bonds, and issue two hundred
shares OF stock therefor.
The said Board Of County Commissioners
shall cause such bonds, with interest coupons
Of said township Of Cottage Grove, County Of
Allen, and shall deliver the same to said rail-
road company. on delivery or tender to the
County Of Allen, by said railroad COMPANY. OF
certificates for its shares OF fully paid up capt.
tai stock OF said railroad company equal in
PROVIDED, Said railroad shall be built and
completed and in operation, by lease or other
wise Is aforesaid, with freight and passen-
ger depot and station established ready for
business, on or before the first day Of Septem-
Der, 1883, withinone-halfmile Of the center line
running. east and west through said town.
shin and not less than two miles more than
six miles from the east line Of said tOwnshiD
PROVIDED FURTHER, That il the said The
Chicaeo, Kansas q Western RailroaG
Company shall lie hindered or delayed in he
construction Of the said line OF railroad by labor
strikes. LEGAL Droceedings or extraoryiinary
action or the elements, the length OF time II il
30 hindered shall be added to the time herein
taken to complete said railroad.
The form OF ballots to he used At said election
shall be: ''FOr the subscription OF stock and
issue OF bonds to The Chicago. Kanaas q
Western Railroad CompanY.O and
ssAgainst the subscription or stock and issue
of bonds to The Chicaao Kanaaa q Wosfer.n
Railroed Company."
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